The Daily Populous Wednesday July 2nd, 2025 night edition
Authored by rollingstone.com and submitted by rollingstone

President Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is far from beautiful and deeply unpopular with the public. Battling concerns from voters about increased barriers to accessing programs like Medicaid and food assistance; massive transfers of wealth from less fortunate Americans to corporations and the rich; and the mass deregulation of industries like crypto and AI, Vice President J.D. Vance is attempting a new tactic to persuade the hesitant: ignore all of that and focus on how much money the bill is giving to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“The thing that will bankrupt this country more than any other policy is flooding the country with illegal immigration and then giving those migrants generous benefits. The [One Big Beautiful Bill] fixes this problem. And therefore it must pass,” Vance wrote Monday night on X.

“Everything else — the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy — is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions,” he added.

The millions of people who are expected to lose access to their health insurance as a result of the legislation would likely beg to differ.

The version of the legislation passed by the House would give ICE over $100 billion for the construction of new immigration detention centers, increasing arrest and deportation efforts, militarization of the border and the hiring of new agents.

Such a massive windfall for immigration enforcement comes as ICE has blown through its annual budget months before the end of the fiscal year. In May, during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) laid into the reckless spending of the Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Kristi Noem.

“You are spending like you don’t have a budget. You are on the verge of running out of money for the fiscal year […] You are ignoring the immigration laws of this nation, implementing a brand-new immigration system that you have invented that has little relation to the statutes that you are required — that you are commanded — to follow as spelled out in your oath of office,“ Murphy said. “Your agency acts as if laws don’t matter, as if the election gave you some mandate to violate the Constitution and the laws passed by this Congress. It did not give you that mandate.” Editor’s picks

Through the reconciliation bill and presidential policy, Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are looking to give DHS and ICE that mandate. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has demanded that ICE detain at least 3,000 migrants a day. As the reconciliation bill continues to move through the Senate, Trump and Noem traveled to Florida on Tuesday to tour the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz,” a migrant detention center built in the hostile backwaters of the Florida Everglades. Trending Stories J.D. Vance Dismisses Kicking Millions Off Medicaid: ‘Minutiae’ White, Legally Armed, and Primed for Political Violence Senate Republicans Pass Trump's Bill to Strip Health Care From Millions Trump’s Attack on Iran May Have Made the Nuclear Crisis Worse

“We’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator,” Trump said ahead of his visit to the center. “Don’t run in a straight line,” Trump said, waving his hand in a zig-zag to demonstrate how a detainee might potentially need to move to escape a half-ton reptile.

This kind of callous cruelty is what the administration is focused on, whether it be its treatment of migrants, or dismissing kicking millions off of their health care as insignificant “minutiae.”

thecrunchypepperoni on July 1st, 2025 at 15:44 UTC »

Medicaid and social wellness programs are what kept this pudgy fuck fed while his mom was off stealing fentanyl from her workplace.

WithMaliceTowardFew on July 1st, 2025 at 15:43 UTC »

Remember to these monsters, empathy is a sin. They really don’t care that the sickest and neediest among us die. In fact, I think they enjoy it. I really do. It makes them feel like winners.

blues111 on July 1st, 2025 at 15:42 UTC »

"They'll get over it" - Mitch McConnell

"Everybody dies" - Joni Ernst

"Minutiae" - JD Vance

They dont care about the working class and they never did, they dont care if you die due to their actions